The one SOLO PIANO album you think everyone should own.

[Bunny]

Okay - I get the picture and aim to please.

Thanks!  That sweet face really perks up my day.

[carlos]

Horowitz's Pictures. Any of his 2 recordings.

[Maciek]

Anderszewski: Beethoven - Diabelli Variations

Definitely, of the ones I own, my favorite solo piano disc!


A very close runner up would be this one:

International Chopin Piano Competition - The Golden Twelve, vol. 4: Garrick Ohlsson and Krystian Zimerman

Ohlsson is very good but I'd be nominating this because of the Zimerman part of the disc of course. It's worth getting for the Etude in F major Op.10 No.8 alone. (Unfortunately, for some reason the disc does not contain Zimerman's breathtaking Andante Spianato and Polonaise from the same competition... )

Maciek

[Todd]

[Bach Man]

[Brian]

I don't get the whole business with Gould and the Goldberg Variations. What boring music!






*awaits the firing squad*

[Holden]

or

[Don]

I don't get the whole business with Gould and the Goldberg Variations. What boring music!

Sorry you feel that way.  Which versions have you heard?

[Michel]

I agree with Richter's sofia recital has to be up there-- I can't listen to Pictures performed by an orchestra anymore - it simply does not have, paradoxically, the powerful effect that this solo work does!!

[BachQ]

[Sergeant Rock]

Okay - I get the picture and aim to please.

Ah, there's the Don I've come to know and love, and recognize. That avatar is you, dude.


As far as my choice of album...this one:



Sarge

[Haffner]

Easy peasy... 



Q

Good pick, Que!

[Haffner]

More information 

Where have I been? I haven't even heard of this one??!!! His Chopin is terrific!

[George]

Stravinsky (3 mvts. from Petrouchka), Prokofiev (Sonata 7), Webern (Variations), Boulez (Sonata 2) / Maurizio Pollini CD
Essential, jaw-dropping and mindboggling!

Secconded! 

[George]

Where have I been? I haven't even heard of this one??!!! His Chopin is terrific!

RUN, don't walk! 

[uffeviking]

Anderszewski: Beethoven - Diabelli Variations

Definitely, of the ones I own, my favorite solo piano disc!

If you have the opportunity - and the money! - get the DVD of his performance and conversation. I mentioned it on another thread.

[uffeviking]

No doubt: Sokolov and Diabelli Variations:

[Don]

No doubt: Sokolov and Diabelli Variations:

Good choice, but I personally prefer the Anderszewski.

[Norbeone]

Im gonna add another vote to Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations.

And I'll name the DVD of Glenn Gould playing the Goldberg's as the one music DVD that everyone should own. It is truly astounding stuff.

[uffeviking]

Good choice, but I personally prefer the Anderszewski.

I have  both and it amazes me every time watch them how two great artists can use the same notes written by a genius, can have such different meanings and enable different interpretations.